Russia's Ukraine invasion forces Japan to confront its nuclear taboo

The spectre of nuclear weapons being deployed in Ukraine, combined with the leaps that both China and North Korea have made in recent years in atomic weaponry, has emboldened some on the right in Japan to call for the nation’s non-nuclear principles to be reconsidered. And while the possibility of a conventional conflict devolving into an exchange of nuclear warheads...

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